God, I love this book –even though the cover still really creeps me out. I have read it before — 2013, it looks like — but haven’t listened to the audio version. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE AUDIO VERSION. If the written copy deserves 5 stars, the audio (read by the author, of course) should get 6! 7! Give Tina all the stars! “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.” […]
“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn’t her parents’ and it wasn’t her friends: It was her own. ”
And here we are in the fourth summer! “We aren’t in high school. We aren’t really in our families and we aren’t in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren’t us. If think they are, then we’re lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren’t any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.” Lina has a fling with a fellow artist from art school. I am all for Lena […]
“I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself”
This wasn’t like, horribly monstrously bad. But it was still not very good. It’s the story of Jessie Sullivan, a married woman in her forties, who goes home to this tiny island after she hears that her mother has had a nervous breakdown. Said nervous breakdown manifests as her mother intentionally cutting off one of her fingers. While back home, Jessie falls in love with a monk from the monastery that’s next door to her mother’s house. Meanwhile, her mother continues to act like a […]
“When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”
Okay, book 3. This is the last summer before the girls go off to college, but of course they don’t spend it together because everybody has their own thing going on. “How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it […]
“But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.”
Yes I’m still reading these sappy ass books. “The word friends doesn’t seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.” So the second summer of The Sisterhood allows the girls to split up into their own four little storylines again, with intermittent mingling as time progresses. Bridget goes to Alabama to hunt down her grandmother. Carmen gets jealous because her mom has started dating. Tibby’s making a movie that […]
“A True-Life Novel”
This is undoubtedly one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. And I have read a lot of memoirs! It helps that Jeannette Walls is incredibly talented, as I already knew from having read The Glass Castle and The Silver Star. But her subject here is really what makes this book stand apart from so many others. “You can’t prepare for everything life’s going to throw at you. And you can’t avoid danger. It’s there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit […]
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